Daniel Orf
Principal Software And Security Engineer at Smartsheet
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolDaniel Orf is a Principal Software and Security Engineer in Seattle with a decade of experience building secure, scalable cloud platforms and hardened container supply chains. He leads cross-functional engineering efforts to achieve FEDRAMP/FIPS compliance, automate vulnerability management, and standardize DevOps deployment patterns across AWS and Kubernetes ecosystems. His background spans event-driven architectures and internal platform tooling at The Climate Corporation through to container orchestration work at SUSE, giving him a rare blend of infrastructure, security, and backend engineering depth. Daniel pairs hands-on coding (Python, Go, Terraform) with technical leadership, mentoring teams on operational best practices and reducing deployment cycle time and risk. Early-career work in machine vision and mechanical engineering informs his systems-thinking approach and attention to measurable reliability. Colleagues rely on him to translate regulatory and security requirements into practical, auditable platform solutions that enable product teams to move faster.
10 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BS) Mechanical Engineering at Washington University in St. LouisBachelor of Science (BS) Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BS) Mechanical Engineering at University of Missouri-Saint Louis
Github Skills (126)
messaging10
python10
trading10
image-processing10
queuing10
economics10
cryptocurrency10
docker-registry10
harbor10
streaming10
crypto10
simplify10
sec10
signing10
command-line-parser10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
danielorf/pyaxiscam
Jun 2017 - May 2020
Python library to control Axis Communications IP cameras
Contributions:10 commits, 2 PRs, 2 pushes in 2 years 11 months
python-libraryaxispythoncommunicationspython-script
danielorf/pyMovieFingerprint
Jun 2017 - Oct 2017
Contributions:55 commits, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
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